Safety Summit

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TRSA and its Safety Committee seek to enhance the industry’s “safety culture” by documenting “best practices” to accelerate safety performance and eliminate incidents. Discussions at the Summit will identify risks in laundry plant and service work that require improved mitigation and propose solutions.  

Safety experts emphasize that while management often claims a “commitment to safety” the real or imagined pressures of production can and often do defeat safety programs as the majority of these efforts focus on compliance and requirements, not zero-based objectives. Instead of developing new strategies and tactics, safety management focuses on existing practices:
- Too much effort on enforcing specifications, rules, reporting and regulations compared with evaluating their effectiveness
- Command and control by management to prompt compliance as opposed to finding other sources of motivation

The Summit will foster novel approaches by identifying the most difficult obstacles the industry faces in eliminating injuries and illnesses and developing consensus proposals for overcoming them. Conclusions will drive TRSA programming such as best practices documentation, conference presentations, education/training, research/benchmarking and other resources.

Agenda

Tuesday, May 21
3 – 7 pm        Registration
5 – 6:30 pm    Welcome Reception

Wednesday, May 22
7 – 8 am                    Breakfast
                                 - TRSA Chair Jim Doro, Safety Committee Chair Rick Gerlach
8 - 9 am                     Becoming One of America's Safest Companies
                                 - Jim Gribbins, CEO, Gribbins Insulation
9 – 10 am                   Driving Profitability While Protecting Employees
                                  - Todd Hohn, UL Workplace Health & Safety
10– 10:15 am             Break
10:15 am – 12:30 pm  Break-Out Sessions: Best Management Practices, Policies
                                  - Driver Safety
                                  - Effective Blood-Borne Pathogens Programs
                                  - Haz Comm Standard vs. Globally Harmonized System
                                  - TRSA Safety Survey Report and SafeTRSA
                                  - Reducing Ergonomic Risks
12:30 – 2 pm              Lunch and General Session
                                  Break-Out Session Reports by Safety Committee Representatives
                                  Campaigning from the Heart for Cell Phone-Free Driving
                                  - Jacy Good, Hang Up and Drive
2: – 2:15 pm              Break
2:15 – 3:30 pm           General Session
                                  Hiring Healthy People and Keeping them Healthy
                                  - Roslyn Stone, Corporate Wellness, Inc.
3:30 – 5 pm                Panel Discussion
                                  Executive Management Perspectives
                                  Moderator: Edwin G. Foulke Jr.. Fisher & Phillips, LLC
                                  U.S. Asst. Labor Secretary, OSHA, 2006-2008
                                  - Eric Brady, Brady Linen Services, N. Las Vegas, NV
                                  - Dan Braun, Cintas Corp., Cincinnati, OH
                                  - John Ross, Mission Linen Supply, Santa Barbara, CA
                                  - Bob Connolly, Prudential Overall Supply, Irvine, CA
                                  - Ed McCauley, United Hospital Services, Indianapolis, IN
                                  - Rob Potack, Unitex Textile Rental Services, Mt. Vernon, NY 

Accommodations
Hilton Indianapolis Hotel & Suites
120 West Market Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Reservations: 800-315-1906
Rate:$139, ask for TRSA block, cut-off date April 20, 2013  
Check-in: 4 p.m.
Check-out: noon